Best Buy NOT stocking Gurren Lagann part 2 DVDs

I realize this completely sucks for Bandai, and and for their anime title exposure, but the sky isn't falling. You can still order basically all of bandai's future titles in-store. It sucks that they charge a $3 per item S&H fee to ship things to people's addresses, but that is still less than paying full MSRP at FYE. You can even make the orders without a credit card by buying in-store a gift card for the exact amount of the order.

And now I see Kleckner confirming in the other thread that that rumour about best buy cutting shelfspace/buying for anime in 2009 is at least half true.
 
Shawne Kleckner of Rightstuf.com said so and he normally has a finger on the pulse of the anime industry
http://www.mania.com/aodvb/showpost.php?p=1505889&postcount=22
 
Best Buy charged way too much. I don't know what the stigma is to buying from Right Stuf, it costs 50% less than buying from Best Buy.

The last thing I bought from Best Buy was Gotham Knight last year, so essentially, they'll be seeing me when a new DC DTV comes out and that's it.
 
Bestbuy is getting worse and worse, honestly, so does this mean no more eureka seven?

(They literally have TONS on eureka box sets crammed on there shelves)
 
The reason for me, and probably others, is that they don`t accept paypal. I hate giving my credit card # out to smaller online stores. It's just a stigma I have.
 
I would say that I'll just go to my local Suncoast instead, but that's closing. Hopefully if Best Buy is indeed not stocking these (as is apparently happening with some Media Blasters titles as well), I can at least get them at my local FYE.
 
I can see Bandai getting cut harder than others though because they are horrendous about putting out way way way too many SKUs for one title, and often times, it's in huge, space eating boxes because of the extras. I mean, yeah, some of those titles move (Haruhi being the best on that,) but some lag so badly as to make retailers regret touching them (rumor was the sluggish sales of the exceedingly space intensive Scrapped Princess LEs put Best Buy off any anime with "princess" in the title.)

Contrast that against Funi which has been actively paring down the nuraber of SKUs for a given title by actively moving towarRAB season sets in thinpaks/cardboard multidisc packaging, and by rotating old single disc SKUs for boxsets as soon as possible. Even shows that run across 8 discs like Kiddy Grade and Tenchi Muyo GXP are boxed, under 50 bucks and fit in the space of about two discs. That's a huge advantage over the show with one disc and some goodies in a box that doesn't even necessarily fit properly on their store shelves for 50 bucks.

If I were a bigbox retailer trying to maximize ratio between floor-space and nuraber of rotations, I'd be tough on floor space eating, expensive, niche releases too.
 
I personally blame the absolutely crazy size of Single-disc special editions. It's just a stupid practice that "justifies" them selling 4 or 5 episodes of a show for $45- $55 and takes up rediculous amounts of shelf space. Gurren Lagann and Code geass, as well as Eureka 7 are the most guilty of this.


Single DVRAB are also pointless shelf warmers when the 2DVD "packs" are cheaper. Get rid of THOSE, BB, not the ones that sell!
 
What!!?
That's wierd I got Rayearth (licensed by Media Blasters) from Best Buy two years ago, and somehow Devil Hunter Yohko wasn't supposed to be at Best Buy but I wound up finding it


Just great, I got my cousin to buy me a Best Buy gift card for Christmas, and it was all for nothing

Well there's always ordering my DVD's on the net
 
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